The Publish command sets the SAVETIME variable to 0 during it's process. If AutoCAD crashes during the Publish command SAVETIME will not be restored. Workaround is to implicitly set SAVETIME in your startup lisp or VBA code.
Ive searched over at the autocad groups,theres plenty of threads addressing similar problems but this is the only ansWer that appeared !
User had a similar problem where AutoCAD crashed during the publish command,they tried using the original AutoCAD profile and the issue cleared up.Others have resorted to a reinstall.
